Not exact matches
This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's
middle school, which were a
struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own
students weren't performing at the same high
level as KIPP's
students.
Most teachers
struggle with low
student engagement, particularly at the
middle school and high school
levels.
As a former
middle grades teacher of gifted
students, I worry that above - grade -
level standards will not be part of the formative and summative assessment process, leaving these
students to languish unchallenged while their classmates
struggle with materials and activities advanced
students could have completed successfully years earlier.
Often coming to my
middle school classroom reading years below grade
level and with their own personal
struggles, my
students deserve more.
The curriculum is organized into elementary school,
middle school, and high school
level programs that address the daily behavioral and societal skills that will benefit every member of the
student body, no matter their
struggles, talents, or circumstances.
Students who
struggle with reading comprehension in
middle school often lack the academic vocabulary the need to understand grade -
level textbooks and other instructional materials.
Dr. Janczak holds K - 12 certification in Special Education and School District Administration and was a former special educator for
students with mild disabilities at the primary and
middle school
levels where she provided explicit and direct literacy instruction to children who
struggled with the reading process.
As
middle grades educators
struggling to find equity in assessment while honoring the strengths of our learners, we (authors) began crafting a translation guide for
students in
middle school that can help bridge achievement
levels with reporting mechanisms.
When Alison Welcher took the helm of Ranson IB
Middle School in Charlotte, she knew dramatic improvements were needed to catch
struggling students up to grade
level.
One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from
middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than
levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the
levels of illiteracy for their
middle class
students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many
students from those backgrounds
struggling with reading.